Welcome back to Cover Awe, where we talk about book covers that grab out attention in all the right ways!
Amanda: The color palette of this cover is really speaking to me.
Elyse: I love the blue magical light coming from her hand.
I also have a feeling that a certain subset of people born in our age range will always be subconsciously drawn to fuchsia, bright purple and teal thanks to Lisa Frank.
Amanda: Also, loving those high waisted jeans!
Sneezy: I can FEEEL the magic!!! I LOVE THIS!!!!
Maya: Feeling the windswept isolation of this one!
Amanda: Yes! The movement is great!
Sneezy: Ah – disquieting and serene. Yes, I’ll bury the body with you.
Maya: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sneezy: This cover is a luring sprite in book cover form.
“Oooh It’s so beautiful here!!! The air looks so fresh!!! I bet I can really rela- OH NOPE!!!! NOPE!!!! SUSPENSE/THRILLER ALERT!!!!! DID NOT READ WORDS!!!! TURNING BACK.”
Sarah: Is that the global Singh cover? She often has one US and one world cover.
Maya: Yeah, I think so.
Amanda: I loved the green and it’s also giving me underwater algae vibes. The overgrowth on the car is definitely eerie.
Elyse: It’s creepy but subtle. I love it.
Cover Artist: Tammy Sedick
Maya: I’ve gone back and forth on this one, but I think I love it.
Tara: Whoa. That’s not Bold Strokes Books’s usual style. I love the colours.
Amanda: In my imagination, it’ll glow in the dark.
Maya: It definitely reads better in a bigger size! You lose all the fun accents the smaller it gets.
Sneezy: I LOVE how it pulls cosmic and psychedelic together.
QOSMIC QUEER!!!!!!
…okay, I’ll see myself out.
Susan: Oh wow, I would never have guessed that was a BSB cover.
I love the eyelashes the most, weirdly.
Elyse: Again, fuchsia.
All fascinating covers, as always! Although i confess, i have a minor cringe at the font in the first one, especially on what i’ve finally figured out is supposed to be “Hex” (it makes up for it with the couple looking like they actually care about each other)
But my personal favorite new cover i’ve seen lately has to be the one just revealed for the upcoming Anne Bishop book, Crowbones! For a cover that reads Black & Grey at a distance it has a huge amount of subtle little color touches that make the details pop, and that look on her face is everything i aspire to be!
Quiet In Her Bones exceeds the promise of its cover. It’s fantastically creepy, with an unreliable narrator and so many twists and turns. I had no idea who actually killed her and when I finally settled on someone right before the reveal, I was so unbelievably wrong. My best friend writers thrillers and she didn’t figure it out either.
Her first thriller was good too, but this one is phenomenal! By the end of the year, my top 3 books for this year will all be Nalini. I just won’t know which one takes #1 until after I read Archangel’s Light in November.
Fuchsia done right on a cover is always welcome!